7PM to 9PM
Featuring:
Joe Maneri, reeds and poetry
David G. Haas, piano
Marc Riordan, drums
James Bergin, viola
Dan Blacksberg, trombone
JoAnn DiSalvo Haas, poetry
Donation: $10 at the door
For more information on the performers (see bios)
JOE MANERI is a distinguished faculty member at the New England Conservatory, teaching harmony, counterpoint, composition, saxaphone, improvisation and microtonal theory and composition. His class, unique in the United States, has a national reputation and frequently has overflowing enrollment. Overwhelming interest in his class let to the founding of the Boston Microtonal Society, a non-profit organization promoting the study and performance of microtones. As a soloist Joe has performed Greek, Syrian, Jewish and Turkish music on clarinet and saxaphone. He has written tunes and subsequent improvisations, Greek melodies and rhythms,and twelve-tone compositional ideas. He has recorded with the Joe Maneri Quartet over seventeen albums on Leo Records, HatArt and ECM records. He also is a very gifted poet.
DAVID G. HAAS is a versatile composer and pianist with varied experience. In addition to composing original music for JD HAAS PRODUCTIONS, David has written music for theatre productions of The Seagull, Hamlet, Dinaya, and Thumbelina. His music has been produced internationally in the United States, Russia, the Ukraine and Bermuda. David has also produced original music on Wisconsin's PBS network, Cape Cod's WOMR Theatre of the Air and on Cable TV in various cities nationwide. David's strongest influences have been blues and jazz with classical references and a taste for mid-late 20th century harmonies. David studies with Joe Maneri. He has also earned a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he was influenced by Cecil Taylor. He has studied at the Kodaly Institute in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as the Sessione Senese per la Musica e l' Arte in Sienna, Italy.
JAMES BERGIN is a violist, composer and conductor. He studied viola with George Neikrug, solfPge with Albert Yves Bernard, and conducting with Boris Barkan. He began studying with Joseph Maneri at the New England Conservatory in 1971 and continued to work with Maneri for more than a decade. His conducting career includes three years with the NEC Youth Repertory Orchestra, for which he commissioned and premiered pieces by Gary Philo, Thomas Oboe Lee, and Ezra Sims—the latter using pitches from the seventy-two-note octave. He has composed tonal and microtonal music for keyboard, chorus and chamber ensemble, as well as orchestrated music for the Merchant/Ivory film Jane Austen in Manhattan. He is the Music Director of NotaRiotous, a new chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of microtonal music, sponsored by the Boston Microtonal Society.
MARC RIORDAN is a drummer who began performing in Boston clubs and performance spaces at the age of sixteen. Since then he has performed with Steve Lacy, Joe Morris, Stephen Haynes, Allan Chase, Dominique Eade, Stan Strickland, and others. In 2004, Marc Riordan completed a B.M. in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. He is now living in the Boston area. In addition to keeping a regular performance schedule, he is co-organizer of the Monday Night Music concert series, a weekly workshop of all types of music, at the Artists-at-Large Gallery in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston.
DAN BLACKSBERG is a trombonist from Philadelphia who is starting to make waves in the jazz, improvised and new music scenes along the east coast. He has performed with such artists as Frank London, Joe Morris and Jack Wright in locations such as the Knitting Factory and The Stone in New York City, the Zeitgiest Gallery in Boston and the Rotunda in Philadelphia. He finishing his final year at the New England Conservatory where he has had the fortunate opportunity to work with many great teachers and friends.
JOANN DISALVO HAAS is a lyricist and vocalist who also composes music for JD HAAS PRODUCTIONS. JoAnn has composed an original musical “Believe in Your Self , more recently produced as “A Lion's Tale”. She was awarded the Editor's Choice Award by the National Library of Poetry in 1996. JoAnn's education includes private study with faculty members in voice, composition and piano at the Longy School of Music and New England Conservatory